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The Ugliest Cars Ever Made? Carmakers Stray too Far from Basic Design Principles and Create Monsters

The Ugliest Cars Ever Made? Carmakers Stray too Far from Basic Design Principles and Create Monsters

Every once in a while a company with a conservative reputation will try something new, sometimes in imitation of their competitors. The results are frequently disastrous... ...
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A Snapshot Explosion of Big Hair and Boozing In the 1980s

A Snapshot Explosion of Big Hair and Boozing In the 1980s

  In the 1980s, Barcardi rum was the most popular distilled drink in the USA. ...
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Landscape and Memory: Vintage holiday snaps placed in their original settings

Landscape and Memory: Vintage holiday snaps placed in their original settings

There's an old untruth that says other people's holiday snaps are boring. It's the kind of thing said by people with no taste who want to pretend they have taste. A slightly superior taste to you or me. ...
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London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

The cars, colours, haircuts and expressions of frustration capture the mood and tone of a unique era in Thatcher's Britain. ...
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 The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

 The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

“The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars,” writes the Library of Congress, “but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color.” ...
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An Isolation Reading List From Ernest Hemingway

An Isolation Reading List From Ernest Hemingway

The only advice that's worth a damn when it comes to writing is to sit down and write. There are no quick fixes, no cheat sheets, no words that will bring around some grand epiphany. Good writing is earned from experience. It comes gradually through practice. ...
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When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

Udo Kier lost ten-kilos to play Dracula. He ate little more than salad leaf and water - "It’s not only Robert De Niro who prepares himself in this way” ...
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Photographs of Bauhaus in the 1920s

Photographs of Bauhaus in the 1920s

Erich Consemüller and Lucia Moholy's phoogrpahs of the Staatliches Bauhaus art school in Dessau ...
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Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

“Life on the beat” for the NYPD in Sixth Precinct between 1972 and 1979 ...
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That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

There are some writers who think their written words are sacrosanct because in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The Word trumps everything. Four Kings and an Ace? Can’t beat the Word. ...
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A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state’s role in public health. ...
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Buy Prints Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

American artist George Ault showed us the America he saw in shades of darkness ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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